Roulette goes back to ancient Greek times, the guy that invented it was a real genius, as vast gambling pulling power, but gambling is about Mathematics, numbers, Odds, the odds are 36 to 1, but there are 37 numbers with the Zero, in a strict order, world wise, so it all ways had that advantage to the owner. For me,
The roulette wheel only had two places you could cover five numbers with three chips, working with these, and rigid rules, I found I could win often, this gave the punter great pleasure in beating the odds. I went to Las Vegas, the real home of gambling, but OH MY, in all those hotels there was not one table that was real, they all had double zero's, so I did not have one bet, I toured Grand Canyon. lake Mead and the big dam, sat hours thinking how to destroy it and get away safely, this was my job, the job, I had been trained to do in the Army. At the 'Sergeant York' Casino in Brighton there was a raffle among members, the prizes where tickets for the countries first Lottery, I won second prize 250 quids worth of ticket's. I was offered a couple of hundred quid for them, alas I only won four third prizes, a measly 40 quid.